CVE-2007-4273

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-134 Format String Vulnerability

Publication date:

18/08/2007

Last modified:

09/04/2025

Description

IBM DB2 UDB 8 before Fixpak 15 and 9.1 before Fixpak 3 allows local users to create arbitrary directories and execute arbitrary code via a "crafted localized message file" that enables a format string attack, possibly involving the (1) OSSEMEMDBG or (2) TRC_LOG_FILE environment variable in db2licd (db2licm).

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.60 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0

4.60

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2_universal_database::fp14::::::*		8.0 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2_universal_database:::fp2:::::*		9.1 (including)

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CVE-2007-4273

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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